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Secondary Road Improvement Project Land Acquisition and Resettlement Resettlement Plan Document Stage: Final Project Number: 46375-002 May 2018 GEO: Secondary Road Improvement Project Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan (LARP) for Section 2 (Moliti-Chumateleti) Km 24.620 to Km 50.244 Prepared by the Roads Department of the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia for the Asian Development Bank. This resettlement plan is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. Your attention is directed to the “terms of use” section of this website. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. CONTENTS ITEM Page List of Abbreviations 7 Glossary 8 Executive summary 10 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION AND PROJECT DESCRIPTION 17-21 1.1 Overview 17 1.2 Description of the Project 17 1.2.1 Design Feature 17 1.2.2 Right of Way and the Corridor 19 1.2.3 Location 19 1.3 Minimizing Land Acquisition and Involuntary 21 Resettlement 1.4 Scope of the Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan 21 1.5 LARP related conditions for Project Implementation 21 CHAPTER 2 SCOPE OF LAND ACQUISITION AND 22-33 RESETTLEMENT 2.1 Approach and Methodology 22 A IMPACT ASSESSMENT 22 2.2 Total Land Requirement per Ownership 22 2.3 Impact on Private Land Acquisition (Total Affected 23 Parcel and Affected Area) 2.3.1 Type of Land Parcel and Area (Total) per Legal Status 23 2.3.2 Municipality and Village Wise Details on Type of Land 24 Parcel and Area 2.3.3 Use and Type of Affected Land 25 2.4 Impact on Trees 25 2.5 Impacts on Crops 26 2.6 Impact on Buildings and Structures 26 2.6.1 Physical Details of Residential Houses/Dwellings 27 2.7 Impact on Business and Livelihood 28 B AP CENSUS 28 2.8 Impact on Severely Affected Households 28 2.9 Impact on Vulnerable Households 30 2.10 Affected Households and Affected Persons 31 2.11 Affected Households and Affected Persons by Impact Categories 2.12 Summary Impact on Land Acquisition and Resettlement 32 CHAPTER 3 SOCIO-ECONOMIC INFORMATION AND PROFILE 34-43 3.1 1. General 34 3.2 Socio economic Profile 34 3.2.1 Type of Settlement 34 3.2.2 Demographic Features 34 3.2.3 Ethnic Composition of Households 34 3.2.4 Major Economic Activities 35 3.2.5 Major Cropping Pattern 35 3.2.6 Average Annual Income 35 3.2.7 Average Annual Expenditure 36 3.2.8 Possession of Durable Goods 36 3.2.9 Loans and Debts 37 3.2.10 Access to Health Facilities and Major Illness 38 2 3.2.11 Migration Pattern 38 3.2.12 Source of Drinking Water 39 3.2.13 Sanitation Facilities 39 3.2.14 Fuel for Cooking 39 3.2.15 Status on Electrification 40 3.2.16 Type of Dwelling 40 3.2.17 Connection to Road 40 3.2.18 Type of Access Road 41 3.2.19 Summary Findings 41 3.3 Women and Gender Issues 41 3.3.1 Literacy 41 3.3.2 Socio-Economic Activities of Women 42 3.3.3 Women’s Say in Decision Making 42 3.3.4 Expectation of Women from the Road Rehabilitation 43 3.3.5 Action on Gender Issues 43 3.4 Impact on Indigenous People/Ethnic Minority 43 CHAPTER 4 INFORMATION DISCLOSURE, CONSULTATION AND 44- 52 PARTICIPATION 4.1 General 44 4.2 Objective of Consultation 44 4.3 Methods of Consultations 44 4.4 Consultation during Feasibility Stage 46 4.5 Consultation during Detailed Design and Prior to DMS 47 4.6 Findings of the Community Consultations during 47 Detailed Design 4.7 Consultation during Dissemination of Leaflet 48 4.8 Findings and Minutes of Consultations during 49 Dissemination 4.9 Future Consultation Strategy 51 4.10 Disclosure 51 CHAPTER 5 GRIEVANCE REDRESS MECHANISMS 53-57 5.1 Objectives 53 5.2 Formation of GRCE 53 5.3 Grievance Resolution Process 55 5.4 GRCE Records and Documentation 57 CHAPTER 6 POLICY AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK 58-62 6.1 General 58 6.2 Laws and Regulation of Georgia 58 6.3 ADB Safeguard Policy Statement, 2009 59 6.4 Comparison of ADB SPS, 2009 with Georgian Laws and 60 Legislation 6.5 Core LAR Policy Principle for the Project 61 6.6 Land Acquisition Process 61 CHAPTER 7 ELIGIBILITY AND ENTITLEMENTS 63-69 7.1 Eligibility 63 7.2 Cut-off-Date 63 7.3 Entitlements 63 7.4 Entitlement Matrix 65 7.5 Valuation and Compensation Rates 68 7.5.1 Principles and Methodology 68 7.5.2 Determination of Compensation Rates 68 CHAPTER 8 RELOCATION AND INCOME RESTORATION 70-70 3 CHAPTER 9 RESETTLEMENT BUDGET AND FINANCING PLAN 71-72 CHAPTER 10 INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 73-78 10.1 General 73 10.2 RDMRDI 75 10.3 LAR Commission (LARC) 75 10.4 Eurasian Transport Corridor Investment Centre (ETCIC) 75 10.5 Municipality LAR Team 75 10.6 Local Governments 76 10.7 Consultants 76 10.8 Other Agencies and Institutions 76 10.9 Capacity Building on LAR 76 CHAPTER 11 IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE 79-81 11.1 General 79 11.2 Detailed Design Stage 79 11.3 LARP Implementation Stage 79 11.4 LARP Monitoring Stage 80 11.5 Implementation Schedule 80 CHAPTER 12 MONITORING AND REPORTING 82-84 12.1 General 82 12.2 Level of Monitoring 82 12.2.1 International Monitoring 82 12.2.2 Preparation of Compliance Report 82 12.2.3 Preparation of Evaluation Report 83 12.3 Monitoring Indicators 83 LIST OF TABLES Table 1.1 Geographical Jurisdictions along the Project Road 19 Table 2.1 Land Requirement per Ownership in Section-2 23 Table 2.2 Municipality and Village Wise Details of Land Acquisition 23 Table 2.3 Details on Land Acquisition per Legal Status 24 Table 2.4 Municipality and Village Wise Details on Type of 24 Affected Land Table 2.5 Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Land 25 Table 2.6 Impact on Trees 25 Table 2.7 Impacts on Crops 26 Table 2.8 Impact on Buildings and Structures 27 Table 2.9 Details on the Residential Houses/Dwelling 27 Table 2.10 Severely Affected Households 29 Table 2.11 Details on Vulnerable Households 30 Table 2.12 Details on AH/APs 31 Table 2.13 Summary Table on AH by Impact Category 31 Table 2.14 Summary Impact on Land Acquisition and Resettlement 32 Table 3.1 Type of Settlement 34 Table 3.2 Demographic Feature of APs 34 Table 3.3 Ethnic Composition of the Households 35 Table 3.4 Major Economic Activities of the Households 35 Table 3.5 Major cropping pattern and average Yield of different 35 Crops Table 3.6 Average Annual Income 36 Table 3.7 Average Annual Expenditure 36 Table 3.8 Possession of Durable Goods 37 Table 3.9 Taken any loans 37 Table 3.10 Sources of loan 37 4 Table 3.11 Reasons for Loans 38 Table 3.12 Direct Access to Health facility 38 Table 3.13 Major Illness in the Family 38 Table 3.14 Migration Pattern 38 Table 3.15 Period of migration in months 39 Table 3.16 Source of Drinking Water 39 Table 3.17 Type of Sanitation Facilities 39 Table 3.18 Type of Fuel Use for cooking 39 Table 3.19 Connection to Central Power Supply 40 Table 3.20 Age of the Structure 40 Table 3.21 Immediately Connected to Road 40 Table 3.22 Type of Access Roads 41 Table 3.23 Literacy Status 41 Table 3.24 Education Level of Male and Female 42 Table 3.25 Type of Activities of Women 42 Table 3.26 Women’s Say in Decision Making 42 Table 3.27 Women’s Participation in Decision Making 42 Table 3.28 Expectation of Women from the Project 43 Table 4.1 Method of Consultations 45 Table 4.2 Summary of Public Consultations during Feasibility 46 Stage Table 4.3 Summary of Public Consultations during detailed Design 47 Table 4.4 Consultation Findings during preparation of LARP 48 Table 4.5 Summary of Public Consultations during Leaflet 49 Dissemination Table 4.6 Findings and Minutes of the Meetings during 49 Dissemination Table 5.1 Grievance Redress Committee- Section-2 54 Table 5.2 Grievance Resolution Process 55 Table 6.1 Comparison of Georgian Laws on LAR and ADB's SPS, 60 2009 Table 7.1 Entitlement Matrix 66 Table 9.1 LAR Cost 72 Table 11.1 Implementation Schedule 80 Table 12.1 Monitoring Indicators 83 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1 Location Map of the Project Road 20 Figure 5.1 Grievance Redress Mechanism 56 Figure 10.1 Project Organization Structure 74 Figure 10.2 Institutional Arrangements for LAR 78 ANNEXURE 85-215 Annexure 1.1 Details on Width of The Right of Way as per Detailed 86 Design Annexure 2.1 Census Survey (Detailed Inventory) Questionnaire 93 Annexure 2.2 Findings of Inventory and Census Surveys 102 Annexure-3.1 Socio-Economic Survey Questionnaire (Sample 114 Household) Annexure 4.1 Records of Consultations during Feasibility Study 123 Annexure 4.2 Copy of Presentation during First Phase of Consultation 129 during Detailed Design Annexure 4.3 Records of Public consultations in the First phase of 143 Detailed Design Prior to DMS 5 Annexure 4.4 Records of Consultation during Disclosure of LARP 151 Leaflet Annexure 4.5 Copy of the LARP Leaflet 162 Annexure 4.6 Records of Recipients of LARP Leaflet by Affected 174 Persons during Dissemination Annexure 5.1 Complaints and Grievance Submission Form 184 Annexure 5.2 Log Book for Registered Grievance in GRCN 185 Annexure 6.1 Synopsis of Selected Georgia Laws and Regulations on 186 LAR Annexure 7.1 Methodology for Determining Compensation Rates By 191 The Valuation Company Annexure 9.1 Compensation Matrix 204 6 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ADB Asian Development Bank AH Affected Household AP Affected Person DDC Detailed Design Consultant DMS Detailed Measurement Survey EA Executing Agency GEL Georgian Lari (Currency) ETIC Euroasian Transport Corridor Investment Centre GoG Government of Georgia GPS Geographic Positioning System GRCE Grievance Redress Committee GRCN Grievance
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